and. japanese media is reporting fuel rods of the fukushima nuclear plant have been damaged the government meanwhile still isn't ruling out a potential for another down on the ones of another possible explosive out of the sea radiation levels are on the rise now exceeding four hundred times the norm in some parts of the country. it certainly isn't a global level of violence that would normally merit intervention. but some western states trains a different picture of the situation in libya calling for a no fly zone and seeking possible military intervention we investigate the real

situation in the country. and lifting the resets to new i the u.s. vice president visits moscow backing the bid from brussels world trade organization that. this is r.t. live from moscow japanese police claim the death toll has exceeded one thousand people with this comes amid warnings of new threats in the country officials fear there's a risk of another explosion opposite the sheema power plant remain confident it can withstand the blast the first reactor did on saturday where the government does little say saying that the second reacts in fukushima could be experiencing a partial meltdown meanwhile radiation has increased four hundred fold in the

region of my i.q. which lies darden's of kilometers further north it's not clear at the moment if the radiation came from the local nuclear plant or. rifted up of the facility in fukushima following saturday's explosions. were simply radioactivity releases does not pose a threat to human health having said that the number of people have needed to hospital suffering exposure is rising amid a series of aftershocks that continue to rock the country the japanese prime minister has been addressing the situation and he said that twelve thousand people were rescued so far yesterday to death toll from the earthquake triggered tsunami in the my agate province alone is believed to exceed ten thousand. meanwhile the emergency services are on high alert in the russian far east. case is that the situation for us in the cycling region. emergency officials are here all of us

according region are saying that levels of radiation remain normal and they've been on high alert they are constantly checking those levels every two hours ever since there was an explosion at the fukushima plant which is just six hundred miles away from where we are now we can actually check for ourselves the level of the levels of radiation around what i'm wondering is these so-called geiger counter. measures relation levels around and the bigger of these showing now is that jumping between one and two microns per hour. these cameras professional to use them safely water trees by the margins there's ministry all in all and out of specialized services well to give you an idea how much that actually is the level is much lower than the average in the capital of moscow and also at passenger on a plane flying from moscow to science over the last look for example that receives as much as twenty two microns brawler which is time for the cameras showing now in

the capital opposite you will say. oh well of course officials are on high alert as they are receiving confirmed reports from the authorities seem japan that nuclear meltdown is there a likely at the fukushima plant and the good news though is that as a lot depends on the weather the wind is now going in the direction of the pacific ocean but from what we know from other in the planet x. rays in case of an explosion inside one of the reactors at the fukushima plant the radiation would be spreading in waves and these part of russia this region is the closest to japan the coral islands for example are some two hundred miles away from from fukushima people here are closely monitoring the situation and agassi's the first group. also partly because shame accidents were shown on their t.v.

. literally can't believe their eyes that all this was happening in such of the city on saturday they'd been trying to call the emergences ministry the line was always busy to find out whether there is any threat to their health and what preventive measures could be taken citing from where they could gather these characters to measure radiation levels for themselves to anding up to wine. bottles of red wine to prepare themselves for a possible. radioactive emissions but still a lot of runs out of people and the reaction has been different for example spoke to the director of the local statesmen station and who stars use not afraid at all . when moscow says it's ready to help take you know with russia having a vast experience in dealing with both natural and manmade disasters were early and likely to. be from here the crane and it had been over on the capital

moscow for more. prime minister putin said the crush raised ready to double its gas supplies to japan as well as it's ready to send fuel if it's necessary of course many parts of japan remain me without electricity and energy is crucial at that point also russia can send fourteen units of hardware including seven jets they're ready to takeoff as soon as needed with through two hundred doctors and rescuers are on board forty five countries have offered help to japan and to japan has already accepted a number of those over as including from countries like the united states great britain germany new zealand and others japanese ambassador here in moscow has sat that japan is looking into that russia's offer of help as well meanwhile russian authorities are saying they're ready to help at any moment. we need to continue monitoring the situation in the russian far east as closely as possible i've just

talked to the local authorities in the region the situation there is normal both from the point of view of people's housing and radioactivity nevertheless the situation must be closely monitored on around the clock basis. the russian does have this sad experience of dealing with the consequence is that over a nuclear catastrophe back in nineteen eighty six in that you know bill in soviet ukraine so perhaps that experience could be obese to the japanese people in this case. going to you alexei you just mentioned there the chernobyl incident how can the experience from arbitron noble didn't help in dealing with the situation that's unfolding right now in japan. well bowl means the chernobyl incident twenty five years ago remains history's biggest manmade nuclear disaster and indeed that russia is the country despite the fact that it was soviet union still russia is the country which was dealing with this problem and has a vast experience in trying to resolve this issue old the methods in fighting the

explosion at a nuclear plant. to this date were worked out in russia in soviet russia in moscow and in ukraine so should the japanese side ask for the russian help i'm not sure whether any real chernobyl liquidators would be dispatched to the area because it's twenty five years since the zone since then since the since the fallout ensure double but still the experience which russia possesses in that matter would be of course invaluable indeed despite that the two incidents in chernobyl and the one which is unraveling now in japan are different in their nature still of the methods in which you can probably extinguish the fire in the reactor and deal with this issue trying to control it to get the control back over the reactor still there pretty much universally even despite that reactors in japan and internet well are completely different than the ones in fact which were insured double are not

produced anymore they were this is a developing story since the earthquake hit on friday then followed by the tsunami and now a nuclear emergency and the world has been watching now what about in the capital that's what do the people in moscow say about i. what's going on in the east and there's motion went into the japanese embassy here in moscow they've got flowers and they stewed together in grief with the japanese people also if you take a look at any social network all vosh appears what the bloggers are saying we hope that because of their some right nature the japanese will be able to get through this crisis the others are writing we are impressed with the strains of spirit of the japanese people together in grief we stand with them so that people are sending condolences in all the ways they have cable just going back to you alexei the latest we're getting from a japan is that there's talk of a potential meltdown going on in the plant there and just spell that out for us a meltdown just exactly what does that mean. well

a meltdown is about the call of a nuclear reactor going into an uncontrollable state causing a nuclear chain reaction and a possible steam explosion this is exactly what happened the true noble though internet political only forty nine seconds since the start of the failed experiment so the charge of the moment when the reactor exploded leading to the contamination and to the dreadful disaster now in my report i made a short recap of what was happening in ukraine in the soviet your brain twenty five years ago let's have a look at that report spare no effort in getting the job done this typical motto for construction projects in the soviet union also would like to the chernobyl nuclear power plant where construction kicked off in the nine hundred seventy s. it was intended to be a dream project for soviet ukraine. the birthrate in prepared was higher than all of ukraine people were given homes and there was a great demand for a work force in chernobyl so everyone worked and lighted their. but this happy

existence came to an abrupt and on april the twenty six nine hundred eighty six with the explosion of the reactor at the power station the very same model used for building the plants where no effort was known to be used in the clear up of the world's worst ever manmade nuclear disasters the blazing reactor was bombarded with sand and lead measures which at first seemed very driven but which related deemed highly effective by the international atomic energy agency this action helped to contain the radiation and enable construction of a circle focus structure built around the reactor to seal it off for several months after the catastrophe the lessons of chernobyl have been learned by experts worldwide since the catastrophe and will have been of assistance to those battling the latest serious nuclear accident in japan threatening contamination with large numbers of people being evacuated because of the radiation threat something which

didn't happen twenty five years ago in saudi to crane the chernobyl fallout was caused by a massive human error mistakes made by the authorities in the first hours after the blast also cost many lives but the events of twenty five years ago in what is now sovereign ukraine proved to be an invaluable lesson for mankind alexi russia r.t. reporting from kiev ukraine. for more on this when outlined why i don't read what jacob the we said to things that professor of nuclear history and culture of peace i mean has a being with us all to take a now at these latest reports that we're getting of a potential down as to the fuel rods what does that soon and how serious is that. it's very serious but fuel rods are where the fuel the nuclear fuel for nuclear power plants are stored and so as a result the fuel rods are what contains most of the radioactive material so damage

to the fuel rods. primarily means nothing of the fuel rods in the melting of the fuel rods is what releases higher levels of radiation so any damage to the fuel rods is is what we're trying to avoid in all cases so any damage to it does increase significantly the amount of radiation that will enter the environment and also boringly there are reports of radiation levels rising in not a province in japan avonlea comments on bats that coming from the reacts and that will spreading from from kristina. there's the claims of the japanese government at this point is that the radiation they want to go reactor are not coming from that the reactors at that site but are actually from fukushima number one from the explosion at fukushima number one so this is boring as well because if this is true this would indicate that the radiation from fukushima has reached quite a distance from the plant itself the claims are that the radiation levels were high

briefly and then went down and this will correspond to the timing of the explosion in fukushima but as i say seen as how the evacuation area has been ten fifteen twenty kilometers away if in the next prefecture if radiate measurable radiation was present then obviously radiation is spreading beyond the it actually that area what a difference there we're talking here how far that traveled. i'm not sure the exact distance i believe it's somewhere around one hundred kilometers but it could be a little bit less than that but it is on the other side of the bay from sendai it's north of sendai whereas the fukushima site is south of sendai so that would be quite a distance that would certainly indicate that if it did travel that far that there . about open measurable radiation in sendai city itself and your rights and definitely further than not exclusion zone and of course throughout all of this of course anything i conflicting reports coming out of japan is the japanese

government telling us all the truth it and thing. i think that there is a very conflicting reports coming out on the one hand you have the chappies government claiming that there was some melting of the fuel in the number three reactor at fukushima number one site and then you say you also have reports that they are they were in error when they said that any of the fuel had melted i don't there's two possibilities obviously one is that dire information is being withheld in an effort to make the situation seemed better than it is and also to avoid panic but the other perhaps more likely scenario is that the government is not quite certain of the state of affairs in the reactors and so you find it conflicting reports coming out from different spokespeople but either either scenario certainly suggests the situation is far from under control and of course we keep hearing this rather frightening suppression the risk of a partial meltdown at the plant how possible is the risk of

a new explosion out there and the question now. according to reports this afternoon evening here in nj and there's a significant possibility of an explosion at the number three unit at fukushima number one there was pumping of water in in order to cool the reactor vessel and cool the broadstone but apparently when the water that was in was switched to sea water it resulted in some. it resulted in some bad effects and the hydrogen has gathered like it did in the first machine reactor at fukushima number one before that explosion so there's attempts to be bending it but there are certainly appears to be returned reports another buildup of hydrogen which since that was what caused according to reports the explosion in the first reactor there's certainly a potential that this could lead to an explosion at this reactor if it's not alleviated well and also just looking left there i had said we've been told that

the winds are blowing towards the pacific ocean and as a result there's no danger of any possible i can summon a cementing china roster except but of course. it doesn't take not to change the direction of the wind it. it doesn't take much at all and there's a couple things i would say about that one is that if our best case scenarios are down to hoping that the wind blows in the right direction that doesn't indicate that things are in very good shape i would also indicate that i would also mentioned if the wind is blowing out to the pacific which is the best case scenario that would move any radiation that does leak b. in small amounts or larger amounts to the pacific ocean but that radiation does not just go away if it goes out to the pacific ocean that radiation is still radioactive material that could easily blow in the upper atmosphere across the pacific ocean and if it's the wind is going that way it may leave you any problem

in eastern russia in a million any problem in. the korean peninsula but it could well bring someone on a radioactive fallout on north american continent on the west coast of the united states so. he wants that radiation is released into the atmosphere that's the problem it's good for some people have a close one million good for some people if it blows another way but those are. but that's not a good situation if what we're counting on is who gets exposed and which way the radiation blows. daughter ought to take as a research associate professor of history and culture at herat for peace instantly has speaking to us first of all to stay with our team throughout the day as we keep you abreast of all the latest developments taking place in japan. topping the salad the arab league has backed the idea of a no fly zone over libya on

a night in front of member states agree to ask the u.n. security council to impose the restriction suggested by the u.k. and france but as clear reports the asshole situation i would libya is far from the way it's being presented. there's a lot more haggling on the international stage of the merits of intervention and a no fly zone then the bargaining taking place in downtown tripoli market shops here close only nowadays people are afraid and many of the africans who used to work here have flip the country but the argument that libya is on the brink of civil war so foreign intervention is needed still seems to ring a little hollow of several hundred people killed but that's not a huge level of violence it certainly isn't a global level of violence that would normally merit intervention gadhafi has offered access to foreign media but only if the camera lenses stay well away from any of the opposition but it's a similar picture in the opposition strongholds up to ramadan break he was forced

to close the benghazi office of his newspaper because of pressure from rebels you have to print their version of events he says or nothing really media. is going through their hearts this is and all these cities are controlled by the bridges and then given that we will go for. the new was what they think and what they believe and many gadhafi supporters fear that while he may be winning the war with the rebels he's losing the information war back here in john's outside tripoli schoolgirl mona says she's puzzled and angry by reports that most an aries was cheating people in her town is the truth. and life certainly seems calm on the streets. this leave tweaks civil war in libya except that it's coming from outside this country do you think that they will be

civil. as normal right now and in the future. will move normally. as for conflicts elsewhere with it count is climbing it's a little media coverage and even less common interest to intervene there are events unfolding right now in ivory coast where there is also conflict an armed conflict between rebels and the government but nobody seems to be thinking of that it's only because fashionable attention is focused on libya the only reason they're interested in. the oil we think we'd be in iraq if their major export there was broccoli so as leaders meet in brussels to discuss the fate of a country hundreds of miles away many libyans will say it's the inmates and they'll clean it up police here are t. jones of. antiwar columnist and his story. from washington d.c. and there's absolutely no justification for anyone to meddle in the. this is

reminding me every day more of bosnia in the early one nine hundred ninety s. when a clear cut case for intervention couldn't be made in the public was not very much in a mood for war so one had to be sort of created gradually by gradual involvement and it started with the you know humanitarian of the agents and observers and scouting missions and continued through the no fly zone and ended up being for war several years later right now involving the responsibility to protect doctrine is basically going to make it obvious to the entire world that this is a license to meddle doctoring there's absolutely no. possible justification for the united states or even the e.u. to get involved in libya there's just nothing in their charters or just there's nothing that would justify this. talks to russia's envoy to the goals and he says certain countries are pushing to get involved in libya because

their reliance on oil resources. i think if libya were just a banana growing country there wouldn't be so much interest in his domestic situation including in the humanitarian severe of course libya is a big enough energy supplier to europe certain countries like italy for example are heavily dependent on libyan deliveries others are not so much dependent but either way libya's share is considerable we know that nato for example puts energy security matters at the top of its main agenda for this reason i think that this factor has a most direct bearing on the speed of the west decision making regarding libya. the u.s. vice president was in high spirits right here why don't i visit to moscow this week his main goal was to encourage they continue to reset between the two countries one libya understandably made it into the discussion the majority of the visit was focused on trade but talks may have been on the series of the meet the flight.

with. the u.s. vice president of russia but there were members of all the way to the end of his career the russian the that was promised that washington is doing all it can to make. a democratic strategist chris says u.s. needs russia's support and this visit highlights that. i think that the existing relations are on a track moving forward no matter what the little disruptions are and i think that's very important and i think that's part of what biden strip is all about and then obama's trip will be all about which is even if we have set backs along the way the message has to be very clear to the russian people into the american people that russia in the united states now have more in common that we would we do that separates us we need that russia to be part of the w t o we need a free trade with russia i think that that message is being sent to anything the

united states does it will clearly take into account how the russian government works and leadership feels about things and i'm sure that vice president biden is making that very clear to to the russian leadership that whatever we do in libya we're going to try to make sure that we cooperate with you and we're not in conflict with you the other thing of course is that we're coming up to the tenth anniversary of nine eleven i don't think it's lost on the american people that the russian people have been victimized by islamic terrorists and we share that in common and i think the metaphor for that is this idea of a missile defense although it's aimed at states like iran and others i think that it's a symbol that we stand united against terrorists and that's another thing so while we might disagree on things like libya i think going forward the relationship moves forward no matter what the little setbacks might be. well charles a political expert from the u.s. council on foreign relations says russia and the u.s.

. being in the relationship is changing and compassing. i think in many respects what we're seeing here is the closing of phase one and the opening of phase two of this so-called reset phase one was all about security and high politics it was about the new start treaty missile defense iran afghanistan and that really came to a close when the russian parliament and the u.s. senate ratified start now i think what we're looking at is more societal contact cross investment that crosses the borders people traveling more between the two countries and trying to build the confidence that the vice president want to just talk to security is obviously going to be there both in north africa and trying to get us russian cooperation on missile defense but i think we're now seeing the relationship broaden out in deeper and its social route well let's get more on some other international news making headlines and that is the last rally of the

lebanese capital beirut to the disarming of hezbollah fundamentalists the ground supporters of the prime minister. said down after his unity government talents. and its allies pulled out of the town but it's a u.n. tribunal which is likely to implicate its members in the two thousand and five killing of how we respond when the us premiere. but horrific. has claimed the lives of fifteen people and seriously injured another ten was carrying at least thirty one passengers when it flipped over slid on its side and had a pole pole slice the bass in home along the windows terrible roof top of the vehicle with a driver told investigators he swerved to avoid a tractor trailer where this is claimed the blast traveling at high speeds the vehicle was returning from a casino outside the city. what single thing in mind from moscow gets out in

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